... Brathwaite
by Charles W. Pollard
University of Virginia Press, 2004. 231 pages
Laurence A. Breiner
Probably the most important recent book in the field of Caribbean lit­
erature is The Other America (1998), a study of Caribbean modernisms by
a leading scholar, Michael Dash. Charles Pollard’s name...

... condition; instead, he splices to­
gether the multiple and overlapping legacies of the colonizer and the
colonized in the Caribbean to claim the rich diversity of the region’s
cultural resources while still recognizing the trauma of the colonial ex­
perience. Joyce...

... between
Jamaican dialect and standard English, between vernacular rhythms and
measured and mannered prosody, a modern Caribbean verse spoken by
a range of subaltern Jamaican speakers, articulating distinct and dissent-
ing visions of colonial modernity.4 On this reading, the irregularities and...

...
meric epic tradition. Whatever vestiges of original sources may be retained
through Walcott’s process of adaptation, each original is strategically al­
tered by his West Indian Creole aesthetic. In his 1974 essay “The Muse
of History,” Walcott separates himself from African-Caribbean national­...

... Kalliney acknowledges his debt to Rainey’s work
(29-30). While Commonwealth of Letters centers on three case studies from
mid-century, Kalliney reaches back to Matthew Arnold and forward to
the Caribbean Artists Movement and the Booker Prize, making the book
a long history of twentieth-century...

... ways these authors also trade in the
stereotypes that contributed to the Nazi ideal.
J. Dillon Brown’s Migrant Modernism also considers the ways experi-
mental writing can have political implications and effects. Brown looks
at the work of Anglophone Caribbean writers living in London in the...

... he implies is needed. For example, chapter 1, “Broken Witness: Concrete Poetry and a Poetics of Unsaying” reads Terrance Hayes’s “Sonnet” (2002), several works from 1970 and 1971 by the remarkable Umbra poet N. H. Pritchard, and several recent (2001) works by Caribbean Canadian poet M. NourbeSe...

... Marson often remains a footnote in our understanding of transnational modernism while James holds a prominent position as an outspoken political activist and prolific writer. Interest in the sea has regained critical momentum due in large part to renewed interest in Caribbean modernism. Elizabeth...

... Yeats. Even poems that build on theoretical ideas,
such as the “Discourse on the Logic of Language” by Caribbean poet
M. NourbeSe Philip, offer something that theoretical discourse cannot.
Philip’s “Discourse” verbally, almost physically enacts what it feels like
to speak from an alien language...

...
unenthusiastic view of postcolonial nationalism and nation building.
He has had difficulty believing in the ability of new nations in Africa and
the Caribbean to raise themselves to a condition of economic autonomy
and cultural authenticity. He has also been against a political rhetoric and
agenda that...

..., photographs, and other material channels for cultural exchange.
Central to this conversation on the American side was Langston Hughes,
who had spent his career developing a network of writers and intellectuals
of color throughout North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and
Europe. Beginning in...

... of Caribbean-inspired verses entitled “East of Yucatan” in transition ; and manuscripts meant for Crane’s unfinished book Key West: An Island Sheaf . In these arrangements the geographic location fluctuates—the poems’ settings moving in and out of the US national landscape from Florida to Cuba...

... Anglo-American innovative
and experimental writers, a conversation that he found often fell on deaf
ears. He writes:
When I was looking for a publisher for [the book], which deals
with experimental writing by African American writers, white
American authors, and Caribbean authors...

... discussion of the changing regulations about and social at-
titudes toward immigrants to the United States from the Caribbean, see Irma
372
“Sensible of Being Étrangers: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo
Watkins-Owens (11–29). She notes that the reluctance of West Indians to be-
come...

...). This term does not recognize the heterogeneity of socialism as implemented in various Eastern Bloc countries and also excludes its expressions in Caribbean, African, and Asian nations, geographies we do not consider in this special issue. 2 Even in the face of these methodological hazards, however...

... that denies the fascistic unitary
force inherent in modernist aesthetics and politics” (90—91). In the last es­
say of the first section, Reed Way Dasenbrock traces connections between
Pound and Caribbean poet and recent Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott.
Explicitly taking up issues of...